New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-02-02
The Little For tune Teller.

fence, the bright pomegranate bios
q SONS that peered at you as
the gate opened, the voluptuous per
tune Jun OF Of the night jasmine that filed
the atmosphere whereabouts o. even
angs, all suggested that the little resi-
dence on Rue Condo could contain
nothing lle'',nli but some soft-throated, light
hearted and gay inmate. Even the
striped awning that kept out the suns
glare from the gallery seemed to speak
OF refinement and beauty within, and
when the sparkling notes Of a piano
poured out into the streets, halting
the pedestrians by their sweetness, one
would make, an affidavit, willingly,
that the occupant of that house was
both young and beautiful. It is true
that the front fence cut off all view Of
the house and yard, but it's boards
We're so neatly whitewashed and the
gate almost brilliant in suit OF pea
( green paint, that they, like the illus
trated cover OF a book, spoke for the
interior.
If further testimony was asked for
regarding the charms OF the house
holder before alluded to, the corner
grocery man and the Gascon old GEN
tleman who supplied the neighbour
hood with milk might be called upon,
for both had seen that exquisite face
at early morn as it passed modestly
by onits way to mass. Both Of these
wit nesses had frequently spoken of
that little figure in black, and both
had put their five fingers together in
bunch and kissed their tips ecstati-
cally, calculating, CONNIE ca" as
expressive of the quality OF the lady's
beauty. The house was a, cottage and
1T stood some distance back from the
street, luxuriant flower gard en- in
Ftervening. It was built in the old
Creole style, about which there
is so little pretension and so much
comfort. The landlord, when
spoken to regarding his tenants, had
IN a very practical way destroyed
many illusions that had gathered
around the inmates of the house, by
stating that it was rented to Mons.
Jerome Savoy and his sister, neither
sover twenty-five.
"They seldom went out" he said,
"for they had been left orphans not
long since, and their father, just before
dying, had acknowledged that his mer-
scantlle house had been running for
some time ON false credit and he was
a ruined man" With this rather un-
satisfactory requiem he had closed
his eyes, and was dutifully followed to
the old st. Louis cemetery by his
two children, the heavy disap-
spolntment of ohis creditors keep
ling them away. He had kept large
establishment, with a. score of slaves
ana all the paraphernalia that be-
longed in the '1ifties," in New Orleans,
to wealth. Now all this was gone A
meeting OF creditors, a syndic, and a.
sheriff with his red flag and drum, all
had vanished, leaving the brother and
sister with good education and but
Slittle money. Estelle, the young lady,
anourned theloss of her father sincere
ly, but nature had endowed her with
that priceless gift, a happy disposi-
ton, and after O. season of weeping
she had gathered her own little saw
ings together and, with her brother,
had started housekeeping in the
cottage. The society of which
she was such an ornament knew
her no more; almost the only persons
of the outside world who saw her were
her priest and the proprietor of a lace
store were she regularly sold her week s
handiwork. Her piano had been saw
ed from the wreck and her ported
flowers also. With these she made
their little home gay. Her brother
found ready Employment in mer-
camille house, so between them the I'M
pretentious house on Rue Condo was
quite a domestic paradise. With all
the happiness Of brother and sister
there was still a little skeleton in the
cottage. 1t is true, Jerome Savoy
never saw or heard from the diminu-
tive pest. but to Estelle it was uncer-
enormously popping up at times
and making her feel some
what uncomfortable. Particularly
at twilight he would make his appear
ance as she sat at the piano toying
with the keys. Then it was that this
traditional household appendage
would creep out and give a tug at Es-
belle's heartstrings. This skeleton
was the sweet recollection OF a certain
gentleman by the name of Edgar For.
tineau, who had been very attentive
+ TO her before her fathers death, and
who had said to her some of those
Shings that are very pleasant to a
girls ears. He vowed eternal love
Ind fidelity, but was sent to England
by the house with which he was con
nected only few days before the de
mise OF the bankrupt Savoy much tc
their mutual regret.
Estelle had thought OF him at least
once q day for the last two years
that once being, as was said before
at twilight, the time he used to call
Sometimes of mornings he would
give her a pang as she was cleaning
up the little parlor and happened te
come across q piece Of music he lac
yiyen her. Or. some nipcn Of ram am hnrof